Matchmaking for proteins: Introducing TRIANA Biomedicines
Created through the fusion of parallel efforts at RA Capital and Atlas Venture, TRIANA is a newly launched biotech that is building its pipeline using a target-first, rational approach to molecular glue discovery.
A new, data-driven way to build a biotech board
Gateway is RA Capital’s new board-building tool. It’s free to use, so give it a try. And if you’re on a biotech board or aspire to be on one, please take a minute to fill out a profile.
Addressing the elephant in the boardroom
Take a few minutes at the beginning of a board meeting to give the board the big picture before asking them to analyze individual pieces of your narrative. At RA Capital, we encourage our companies to use a tool called the Elephant Slide. This slide helps visualize a company’s value proposition, goals, challenges, and upcoming decisions in one place - allowing you to address the elephant in the room.
Practical considerations for conducting a Series I IPO
Biotech board members and management teams are increasingly asking how their companies can benefit from what RA Capital and others call a “Series I” IPO process (also known as a data-driven or logic-based IPO). Here we’ve compiled common questions and answers.
Vaccines and the inverted capital dilemma
Covid has flooded a barren vaccine startup landscape with capital. And that has revealed some valuable lessons for investors, company builders, Congress, and the public.
Investors and academics: making beautiful music together
Interest in life science technologies and tools is accelerating with the advent of CRISPR and other aspects of synthetic biology. The ability to have a capital efficient way to advance these innovations is very attractive and will help drive innovation.
Accelerating life science tools R&D with venture studios
Interest in life science technologies and tools is accelerating with the advent of CRISPR and other aspects of synthetic biology. The ability to have a capital efficient way to advance these innovations is very attractive and will help drive innovation.
Venture capital evolved to venture creation. Will it stay that way?
The so-called venture creation model has fully taken root, underpinned and enabled by biotech's longest-ever boom cycle and unprecedented sums of available capital.
Covid-19 teaches us the real definition of a 'novel drug'
Whatever therapy or intervention solves a previously unmet need is inherently novel. So any treatments for COVID-19 that turn out to work will be "novel" in every way that matters.